The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-17
C4zAoL1c CHURCH so1zs.
What Is Going on i'm Catholic Circles
Throughout the state.

AhEoukAo tne Stato.
Right Rev. Bishop wigger has resumed
his official visitation of the different
churches in his diocese. which had been in
terrupted by the season of Lent.
The Redemptorist Fathers, Smith, Fraw-
ley, BONN and Iemes begin a mission to-
day in st. Mary's Church, which will be
continued for twenty days. Rev. Father
Smith is in charge of it.
Twenty light men are now employed on
the new st. Bridget's Church, and the
work is visibly progressing. The collection
at st. Bridget's on Easter Sunday. amount
ing to between sixteen and seventeen hun
dred dollars, is an evidence of the active
interest taken by the people of St. Bird.
gots in their new church.
The news from Rome that the conprepa-
ton of the Holy Office has decided in favor
of the recognition of the Kniyh of Labor
in accordance with the report of Cardinal
Gibbons on the subject, has created very
good impression among the Catholic mem
bers of the order especially. Had tn
church adopted policy of censure toward
the knights, many of the Catholic mem
bers would have felt compelled to leave
the erder
The annual banquet of the Seton Hall
Alumni Association will take place on
Tuesday evening, April Goth, at Clarks,
20 West 23d street, New York. The occa-
sion will be enc of unusual interest, owing
to the fact that the congratulations of the
association and other manifestations of
gratitude and good will on the part of the
Alumni will be presented to Very Rev
James Il. Corrigan, who this year celebrates
the tenth anniversary of his appointment
q President ofG ual
The Theological students of Seton Hall
Seminary. at South Orange, are at present
engaged in furnishing that portion of
Alumni Hall devoted to their special use,
and are about purchasing piano, libra
ry, gymnastie apparatus, etc. A portion
OF the funds obtained by the recent Setonia
Bazaar has been given to the seminaries;
but as this amount is far from sufficient.
an appeal has been made to the reverend
clergy of the diocese, many of whom claim
Seton Hall as their Alumni Mater. No
doubt need be entertained that ample
funds will be forthcoming from the clergy
to secure the articles desired.
On Easter Saturday it is customary in
the Catholic churches to bless large guam
titles of holy water, which is car
ried home by the people and used
in all Catholic families during
the year. Some of the vessels in which il
ID conveyed from the Church are certainl,
not the most appropriate for this sacred
use-some of them having evidently been
used to hold far different kind of Water
which is popularity supposed to be much
more agreeable to his Satanic Males than
holy water. Last Holy Saturday an old |
lady brought pickle jar to have i. filed |
with holy water at certain church not |
thousand miles from Jersey City. The |
pastor asked her why sheh had brought such |
a vessel as that, and she replied, "Well. |
your reverence, am going to pickle the |
divil" The priest burst ont laughing, and |
asking no more questions gave the old lady |
the holy water.
Some Of the New York papers have been |
making some very reckless statements in
regard to the attitudes of some of the
clergy in this diocese apropos of the Nc I
GlyDn affair. They have not given names,
but have otherwise published particulars
pointing to this or that clergyman, which |
might be applied to q great many, and |
which have placed some of the clergy in an
embarrassing position. Whatever SYM
pathy may have been felt for Doctor Nc |
Glynn as good, learned and charitable |
priest who has got into most unfortunate
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kindly feeling entertained for the Doctor
by many excellent clergymen throughout
the country-it is safe to say that the
clergy of this diocese by no means uphold
him in the stand he has seen fit to take
against his ecclesiastical superiors, and in
refusing to go to Rome as soon as his |
health and circumstances permitted. The |
vrry Men whom tie statements alluded 10 |
seem to indicate as staunch upholders and |
advocates of tho Doctor and his theories
are those most opposed to them, and who |
do not hesitate to express themselv to |
that effect on all proper occasions. One |
of the most prominent traits of the Cath
Ole priesthood is obedience and loyalty to |
ecclesiastical authority in all things essen
tial, and chose who count ON the clergy as
committed to contrary course in the
present trouble, reckon without their host